Crossword clues for decontaminate
decontaminate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
decontaminate \de`con*tam"i*nate\ (d[-e]`k[u^]n*t[a^]m"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t. To remove contamination or contaminants from, by a cleansing process; -- usually used of radioactive, infectious, or toxic materials; as, to decontaminate clothing worn by persons with infective disease; decontaminate an area of PCB's after explosion of a transformer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, from de- + contaminate. Originally in reference to poison gas. Related: Decontaminated; decontaminating.
Wiktionary
vb. To remove contamination from something, and thus render it safe.
WordNet
v. rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city" [ant: contaminate]
Usage examples of "decontaminate".
The trunks contained field space suits, battery packs, rubber gloves, surgical scrub suits, syringes, needles, drugs, dissection tools, flashlights, one or two human surgery packs, blunt scissors, sample bags, plastic bottles, pickling preservatives, biohazard bags marked with red flowers, and hand-pumped garden sprayers for spraying beach on space suits and objects that needed to be decontaminated.
I tried not to breathe and they decontaminated before letting me out because they thought I was going to drive the car through the wall.
Hooper had chosen the units from the lower floors of the second Firehills tower, and each group was responsible for sealing and decontaminating its own unit.
The area beyond was an abandoned training ground of the war, part of more than 8,000,000 acres in the United States which had been rendered useless until decontaminated by the hazardous efforts of army engineer specialists.
Either Dahak had sufficient power to repair the damage, in which case the ship is, in fact, fully operational and would destroy him or his minions, or else Dahak had insufficient power to decontaminate the vessel's interior, in which case re-entry would remain effectively impossible without Imperial technology-which would activate any operational defensive programming.
He'd be the proper man to send out to the Mil, but- That hothead forgets that no Lotharian has the guts,' he threw in, 'besides himself, because he did it one day on a wager, to walk into a Mil ship until it's been completely decontaminated.
Eventually we may get around to decontaminating all the hotspots, but it's unlikely.